Mark found the laptop open on the kitchen table. He shouldn't have been looking, but he couldn't help himself. He saw a file named "My Muse." The title sent a current of electricity down his spine. He clicked it open.

The prose unfolded, describing a man, kind of similar to him, at a coffee shop. The setting was the same cafe they frequented every Sunday. There was a character clearly based on him. The descriptions were… flattering. He couldn't help but grin.

The story was about a growing affection. The protagonist was navigating the perils of… well, of someone like him, falling for someone like her. Every sentence was a delicious secret. He leaned closer, his cheeks flushed. The screen seemed to glow with a private warmth just for him.

Emotion: infatuated

Cluster: Compassion / Love
PC1 (Valence): 1.61 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.53

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion infatuated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 infatuated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the infatuated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the infatuated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.525
😍0.421
🤩0.418
😍0.410
उसे0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
-0.330
a-0.311
-0.307
-0.299